Plato

Plato

Greek philosopher.

One of the most influential philosophers in history, he founded the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. His dialogues, featuring his mentor Socrates, explore profound questions about justice, virtue, the soul, and the nature of reality. He proposed the theory of ideal forms, influencing philosophical thought on metaphysics, ethics, and political theory for millennia.

Plato Quotes about Soul

  • Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
  • Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
  • Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
  • Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
  • The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
  • False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
  • In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.
  • If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.
  • Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
  • The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
  • You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.
  • Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it.
  • No soul willfully does wrong.